Bob Ryan, Czar of all Sports

Here's a fun article by the Boston Globe's Bob Ryan. Some of his ideas are crazy, some not bad.

Some good ideas:

• No NBA team would be allowed to have a lights-out, music-up starting-lineup intro unless its record was at least .500.
• Sunday games in any pro sport would start no later than 4 p.m. There would, of course, be no Saturday night baseball games. Anywhere. Ever.
• It goes without saying that all World Series weekend games would start at 1 p.m. local time.
• The 3-point shot would be abolished. This is the worst thing basketball has done to itself in the past 50 years.
• A bonus of $500,000 would be given to the NBA coach whose team leads the league in scoring.
• A deduction of $500,000 would be made from the paycheck of any NBA coach whose team does not average at least 80 shots per game.
• Troy Brown would catch the winning touchdown pass and make a game-saving interception in the Super Bowl . . . but Tedy Bruschi would be named MVP.
• Paul Pierce would study some old Kevin McHale tapes and notice that there is a lot to be said for running the lane and getting an easy 2 points.
• This one's for you Kris: The US would win the World Cup. (Just to see what the haughty Brits would write.)
• Kobe Bryant would win the next 10 scoring titles, but the Lakers would never make the playoffs.

Here's one bad idea that annoyed me:

• No overtime football game could be decided by a field goal. The game is about seizing territory, not placekicking.

When will people ever realize that special teams is a part of football? Placekicking deserves much more respect than it's getting now. Maybe, I'm saying this because I've seen what Adam Vinatieri has done for the Pats.